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Sweipolt Fiol: The First Slavic Printer of Cyrillic Characters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Aleksander Sokolyszyn
Aleksander Sokolyszyn*
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Manuscript Division, New York Public Library
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Printing, as a German perfection, was brought to the Slavs by a German craftsman, Sweipolt Fiol, who is considered the first Slavic printer of Cyrillic characters. Fiol's printed church book, Oktoich, in Slavic language with Cyrillic characters, appeared in 1491 in Cracow, Poland. It is considered one of the first Cyrillic incunabula of Eastern Europe.

Lucia Merecka Borski, in an article dealing with the early printing in Poland, stated that "Toward the end of the fifteenth century" a "printing house was opened in Krakow by Swietopelk Fiol (Szwaybold Feyl, Fejel, Szwajpolt Fieola, Fiola) who issued five books in the Cyrillic alphabet about the year 1491."

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 1959 , pp. 88 - 94
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1959

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